Jacob Barandes
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first heard Jan 2025
last heard Jun 2025
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To me, exploring those mysteries
is
most exciting
intellectual journey I think that one can proceed along.
Right.
It's very exciting.
The lack of an initial event does make it difficult to talk about initial conditions, that's true.
And there are all kinds of conjectural theories, cyclic cosmology theories
uh eternally inflating multiverse theories stuff that's even more bizarre in which our big bang is not a unique event.
Um and maybe the universe will go through some other kind of phase transition far in the future that we can't imagine.
Yeah.
I think it's important though.
And and I
I think it's it's always important when having discussions like this.
I think there's there's a view
Um among some people that philosophers like to engage in wild speculation.
Um and you know, as someone who has spent a lot of time in physics, in theoretical physics, and also in philosophy, I find that there tends to be less wild speculation in the areas of philosophy, at least the ones that that I work in and Emily works in, than sometimes I find to be the case in high energy theoretical physics.
Um
One of the reasons why I found working in this particular area of philosophy, analytic philosophy, philosophy of science, philosophy of physics.
One of the reasons I found it to be so
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